Dallas Mission Works to Eliminate Homelessness in City



Operation Care-Dallas, a Christian charity that offers life changing services such as legal advice and medical care to the homeless community in Dallas, Texas, is finally getting recognized for all of its hard work by the Dallas Morning News. The Morning News, a Pulitzer prize-winning paper circulated in the Dallas area, featured Susie Jennings, the founder of Operation Care-Dallas, recently and explained in detail what the group offered to its community.

Jennings - a nurse at Baylor University Medical Center - founded the charity after driving under a bridge in downtown Dallas and seeing the large amounts of homeless people in the area in 1993. Jennings began the work by distributing blankets from her car, and felt that it was her duty to give to these people in need.

Operation Care-Dallas' main goal is to hold a life-changing event once every season, and offers thousands of homeless people services such as haircuts, legal assistance, medical and dental checkups, and makeovers in one place all in one day. Many of the volunteers are from area churches, and the most of the event's $100,000 budget is comes from private donations.

"You see a lot of volunteers that are dedicating their day to try to give to others that aren't as fortunate. That's a terrific thing," said Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, who is glad to see his city's residents working together to help the less fortunate.

According to the charity's website, the next step for Operation Care-Dallas is to purchase a large bus, and have it converted to a "Mercy Bus," a mobile outpost of hope would move throughout the streets of Dallas and welcome guests onboard for a medical screening, distribution of water, health care and personal care products and such.

To read the article on Operation Care-Dallas, go to www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/121607dnmethomelessparty.21f99d5.html, and for more information about the group, visit www.operationcaredallas.org.

About Operation Care Dallas:

Operation Care-Dallas, Inc. provides for the physical and the spiritual needs of the homeless men, women, and children of Dallas by facilitating services and sharing the hope of salvation through Jesus Christ. Since November 1993, when Susie Jennings and a group of volunteers handed out 100 blankets to the residents of the Canton Street bridge located in just south of downtown Dallas, Operation Care - Dallas, Inc. has existed to reach the homeless in Dallas. In 2001, the group became recognized as a tax-free non-profit organization under Section 501 C (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. Leading up to this, Operation Care - Dallas Inc. had assisted organizations in West Africa and Southeast Asia, and provided 1,000 blankets to shelters and individuals in the Dallas area. This was accomplished without corporate sponsors or federal assistance. Operation Care - Dallas, Inc. has at least four to five events during the calendar year. Personal care products, blankets, water, articles of clothing, Bibles and gospel tracts are distributed to individuals at shelters or on the streets.





Dallas Mission Works to Eliminate Homelessness in City